First-Year Academic Success Strategies for Student Veterans

How they used Delve

A doctoral candidate at Nova Southeastern University used Delve to run multi-cycle coding of interviews with five first-year student veterans, moving from open coding to pattern and axial coding and using Delve's retrieval functions for a cross-case analysis of academic-success strategies.

“Data analysis followed a multi-cycle coding process. First, open coding was conducted in the DELVE software program in order to discover which units of the participant's responses were meaningful in terms of this case study and the research questions [...] The coding organization and retrieval functions within the DELVE software program were used to compare codes across all five transcripts”

Field

higher education; student veterans; first-year success

Data

Interviews with five student veterans about their first year of college

Approach

Qualitative case study with multi-cycle coding: open coding, pattern coding into themes, axial categories, cross-case comparison in Delve

Data types

Interviews